2021-053 Resolution Identifying the Need for Livable Communities Demonstration Account Funding and Authorizing Application for Grant Funds for 325 Blake Road CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2021-053
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING APPLICATION FOR
GRANT FUNDS FOR 325 BLAKE ROAD
WHEREAS, the City of Hopkins is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Local
Housing Incentives Account Program for 2021 as determined by the Metropolitan
Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for Livable Communities Demonstration
Account funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets the
Demonstration Account's purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes the
purposes of the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act and the policies of the
Metropolitan Council's adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS, Alatus LLC has requested that the City sponsor an application for Livable
Communities Demonstration Account funds for its 325 Blake Road project in the City of
Hopkins; and
WHEREAS, the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure
adequate project grant administration; and
WHEREAS, the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations
as stated in the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS, the City agrees to act as legal sponsor for the project contained in the grant
application submitted on or before September 27, 2021; and
WHEREAS, the City acknowledges Livable Communities Demonstration Account
grants are intended to fund projects or project components that can serve as models,
examples or prototypes for development or redevelopment projects elsewhere in the
region, and therefore represents that the proposed project(s) or key components of the
proposed project(s) can be replicated in other metropolitan-area communities; and
WHEREAS, only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities Demonstration Account during each funding cycle and
the Metropolitan Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant
funds only to eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of
Demonstration Account grant funding.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and due
consideration, the governing body of the City:
1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities
for the proposed project to occur at this particular site and at this particular time.
2. Finds that the project components for which Livable Communities Demonstration
Account funding is sought:
a. will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the
reasonably foreseeable future; and
b. will occur within three years after a grant award only if Livable Communities
Demonstration Account funding is made available for this project at this time.
3. Represents that Alatus LLC has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to
procure funding for the project components for which Livable Communities
Demonstration Account funding is sought but was not able to find or secure from
other sources funding that is necessary for project component completion within
three years.
4. Authorizes its City Manager or designee to submit on behalf of the City and
Alatus LLC an application for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities
Demonstration Account grant funds for the project component(s) identified in the
application, and authorizes the Mayor and City Manager to execute such
agreements as may be necessary to implement the project on behalf of the City.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 21st day of September, 2021.
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4'ason Gadd, Mayor
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Amy Domeier, City Clerk